iPhone GPS led police to suspects' trail

SOUTH COUNTY — San Diego police arrested two men suspected of robbing a pedestrian at gunpoint Monday night following a chase from Otay Mesa to San Ysidro that involved officers, police dogs, a helicopter and a phone’s GPS system.

A man reported shortly before 10 p.m. that he was robbed of his iPhone on Kimsue Way, near Piccard Avenue in Otay Mesa, by two men who fled in a silver Honda Accord.

The victim described the men as Latino and in their early 20s. He said the passenger was armed with a handgun.

Police tracked the location of the phone to the area of Smythe Avenue and Cottonwood Road in San Ysidro. Shortly afterward, the suspects turned the phone off.

They abandoned the car and fled in the area of Smythe and Foothill Road. One man was found shortly afterward hiding in the yard of a nearby residence and taken into custody, police said.

Officers with police dogs began a yard-to-yard search for the other suspect. About 10:45 p.m., he was found hiding under a truck in a residential neighborhood on Lashlee Lane, near Avenida de la Cruz, and arrested, police said.